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Wilson, Pete. California’s Ocean Resources: An Agenda for the Future. The Resources Agency of California. July 1995.

California's Ocean Resources: An Agenda For the Future was prepared pursuant to a legislative mandate (AB 205, Chapter 1027, Status. 199 1). This document helped the California Ocean Resources Management Program realize its mission of ensuring comprehensive and coordinated management, conservation, and enhancement of California's ocean resources for their intrinsic value and for the benefit of current and future generations. In doing so, the major State and federal laws that impacted California's ocean ecosystem are listed and described herein, as are the roles of the agencies charged with implementing these laws. California's complex system of State and federal reserves, refuges, sanctuaries, areas of special biological significance, and other managed areas are described and mapped in a single source document for the first ' time. A computer- based geographic information system was developed in conjunction with this effort that allowed immediate retrieval and analysis of an extensive array of ocean and coastal resource information. Also included in this resource is an economic analysis prepared specifically for this project which reveals that seven ocean-dependent industries directly and indirectly contributed 17.3 billion dollars to the State's economy in 1992, supporting over 370,000 jobs in California.

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